ULPT how to bypass the gym booking 5am hunger games ?

Posted by eat-real-chips@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 14 comments

Seeking help as I am a bit of a Luddite.

I have a gym membership via an app ClassPass and like many gym bookings, to book onto an activity or class they release slots one week in advance of the session.

However the release time is 5am 😩

So at the moment I set my phone alarm for 4.59 and bleary eyed open the app and book. I usually get a slot but more frequently lately by the time I click through it’s fully booked. I struggle to then go back to sleep so it’s like 3 or 4 days a week I am loosing 3 hours sleep just to make a gym booking.

Is there some sort of software that can automate the process and make the booking for me at one second past 5am???

Thank yooooooooooou

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HackMeRaps@reddit

You can just build a macro for your computer since it's the same process every day. What the macro would do is literally simulate what you would do to book the class. Somthing like this: https://www.macrorecorder.com/

Open up your web browser, go to classpass.com, search for the class, click on it, and click book. A macro would literally record your mouse movements and clicks so you can simulate it.

Personally for me, I actually hacked into my gyms system (most gyms I go to use https://www.marianatek.com/ for their gym interface. if you go to studioname.marianatek.com it'll usually bring to the gyms login interface, and using the gyms generic info email and figuring out their password, I can go in there and auto reserve my spots and save them, etc.

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Jimlad73@reddit

I guess the problem with a macro might come on the time slot selection? They might be in a different place on the screen each time? Or if the website loads with a larger than usual banner ad etc? I assume it’s totally unintelligent ?

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Mother-Pride-Fest@reddit

uBlock Origin removes one of those variables.

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HackMeRaps@reddit

Correct.

But I’ve used ClassPass before and what you can do is get a URL for that specific class once it’s available. So as part of your macro just paste in the URL for that class.

I’ve used other this before like distill.io where it notifies you if something on the site has changed. I use that to track if the amount of credits changes and gets cheaper.

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Mother-Pride-Fest@reddit

macrorecorder is proprietary, please do not give them free advertising. It would be much safer to use https://www.autohotkey.com/

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HackMeRaps@reddit

This is ULPT, so I'd say just pirate the software was well. Yeah, haven't used any kind of macros in a while, but just downloaded free software when needed.

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Mother-Pride-Fest@reddit

It's also about safety and reliability. Proprietary software is much more likely to include anti-features like license checks to make the software stop working if it can't connect to the server, and it is more difficult to check it for malicious behaviour.